Christmas is coming on a Seasonal Slow Flow Echoes. In this all-instrumental program, we’ll hear music inspired by the winter season in all its quiet majesty and interior warmth.
An Echoes Winter Solstice: a soundscape of snow shrouded trees and silent saguaro cacti. There are no Christmas Carols, but a sleigh ride into the celestial and chilled side of the season.
These are challenging times. We are constantly seeking new avenues of funding. At the same time, as I’m sure you know, money is tightening for everyone as inflation and interest rates rise.
Brian Eno, followed by Klangwelt, Delay Tactics, David Vito Gregoli & Ricky Kej, Ian Boddy, and 20 more great artists are featured in the Echoes Top 25 for November.
Hear seasonal sounds off the beaten reindeer path with winter-themed selections from artists new and old, including Loreena McKennitt’s December CD of the Month, Under a Winter’s Moon.
Echoes doesn’t have 12 days of Christmas, but we do have 12 CD of the Month Picks. We’ll go through them, first forward and then backwards. 2022 was a great year for music on Echoes.
Singer Christine Byrd has emerged out of the Christian music scene, and backing vocals for the band Hammock, to forge a music of liberation, loss and atonement, as Lumenette.
Music by Karmacoda, a band out of San Francisco. They’re tapping that old Trip-hop sound on their new album Lessons in Time. We’ll also hear from Aukai’s new album called Apricity.
The Siberian sound of Otyken. They marry the tribal sound of the native Chulym people with modern production and the ferocious voice of Azyan. John Diliberto takes us to Siberia with Otyken.